MD/PhD Candidate Melody Lun has been awarded a grant from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR). The official title of the scholarship is “Glenn/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging”

PhD Candidate Mostafa Belghasem received a fellowship (travel award) to attend the Intravital Microscopy Workshop at Indiana University Medical Center; this workshop was the week of May 5th

Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD was an invited to present at several events for May 2013:

A recent manuscript from the Kurosawa and Henderson labs, in collaboration with a group at Texas A&M was discussed in the May issue of the Kidney International Journal Club (Kidney International (2013) 83, 775–776. doi:10.1038/ki.2013.116). This journal highlights the latest research from across a wide spectrum of journals in fields relevant to renal research. The Kurosawa-Henderson manuscript identified differences in renal pathology elicited by toxins from enterohemorrhagic E.coli, a food and water-born pathogen, and supports the notion that therapeutic targeting of both bacterial toxins is of value.

Nancy S. Miller, MD lead a presentation and audience interactive session at the AACC Trimark Infectious Disease Conference on May 31, 2013 in Randolph, MA. “Point of Care Meets Microbiology: What we have, what we need, what is on the way? Preparing for the next frontier of point-of-care” In collaboration with Jean Ahern, C(ASCP) POC Specialist at BMC.

Dr. Carmen Sarita –Reyes has been appointed a member of the National Board of Dental Examiners Microbiology-Pathology Test Construction Committee. Dr. Sarita-Reyes will be attending her first meeting from May 28th – 31st 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.

In this paper, we present here the biochemical analysis of six proteins from Helicobacter pylori ATCC 26695. The functional characterization of Open Reading Frames (ORFs) from sequenced genomes remains a bottleneck in our effort to understand microbial biology. In particular, the functional characterization of proteins with only remote sequence homology to known proteins can be challenging, as there may be few clues to guide initial experiments. We provide a path towards this problem using affinity enrichment of proteins from cell lysates, and a global perspective of protein function as provided by COMBREX.

Resident Anita Deshpande, PGY-2, USCAP poster presentation held in Baltimore March 2013 on “Leiomyoma of the Gastrointestinal tract with Interstitial cells of Cajal: A mimic of gastrointestinal stromal tumor” has been accepted by American Journal of Surgical Pathology for publication.